Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To emigrate; expatriate one's self.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb obsolete To emigrate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
emigrate . - verb To cancel or return from
migration (of e.g. a computer system).
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Latin demigrare.
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de- + migrate
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Examples
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In hunter gatherer societies, the primary social ethic is equal 'sharing' - in which the majority gang-up to demigrate anyone who seems likely to become too dominant.
Envy, Happiness, and Social Policy, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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